First, she paused to let Sara see Miss Mary's sewing room. Kitty discretely pointed out the wooden box packed full of old but serviceable cloth and sc...rap rags. That was something any women staying in the roomin' house needed to know about for when they were inflicted with the monthly curse. Secretly Kitty thought it wasn't fair that she was afflicted with it too, even though she was part boy. You'd think having a staff would exempt her from Eve's curse! Still, it wasn't her place to question. He couldn’t defend himself and he knew it. She stood up. She looked right into his eyes. And then she winked and she smiled. She proceeded to the door to his office. Her hair was still messed up. Her blouse was all untucked from her skirt. Her skirt was all askew and she was carrying one of her shoes in her hand as she reached his door. She looked at him and smiled one last time. Then she said, quietly “Have a nice life.” Afterward, as she walked or better yet “stormed” out of his office with a. I took another drag of my cigarette cupped under my hand, and half into my jacket so it wouldn’t get wet. Out of nowhere she turned to me and said. ‘Excuse me? Could you.. Uh.. Do that again?’ Choking on my own words, god I was going to die of asphyxia, I couldn’t breathe much less think of the words that were coming out my mouth as I sputtered them out like a high school kid being caught looking through the holes in the changing rooms. ‘Guh… what did I.. Um.. Uh..look at? Or I.. ‘ She. ”The club they went to next was alive with people and loud music by the time the four girls got there. It was ladies’ night, so they got in free. They got a table on an upper level that looked down at the dance floor from six steps up, and surprisingly got served right away. They’d ordered white wines.Alice situated herself to look out over the modest size crowd on the lower floor that included the area for dancing. A table of four guys was just below the railing where she sat. Even as she sat,.